Hello

It seems a world away now the month I spent with the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio where I wrote the first draft of a new story but I have now finished the second draft.

All I’ll say for now is that it’s the story of a dog and his boy.

Best wishes,

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School for Skylarks

It is 1939. When Lyla is evacuated from her home in London to her great-aunt’s enormous house in the West Country, she expects to be lonely. She has never been to school nor had any friends, and her parents have been at the centre of a scandal. But with the house being used to accommodate an entire school of evacuated schoolgirls, there’s no time to think about her old life. Soon there is a horse in a first-floor bedroom and a ferret in Lyla’s sock drawer, hordes of schoolgir …